CANOTA IS THE LOCATION IN WHICH WE CAN FIND THE MONUMENT TO THE ANDES ARMY, REPRESENTED BY TWO STONE WALLS.

Canota is the spot where we can find the monument to the Andes Army, represented by two stone walls that level the geographical stage exactly where the military columns of General Las Heras and General O’Higgins separated during the 1817 campaign. We can get to this villa by coming into all through the northern entry, previous from the airport. From that stage the rise is far more pronounced and the roads turn out to be really winding. This region is complete of springs, leading the way to Villavicencio’s Sizzling Springs.

Found only a handful of miles from the capital, on the way to Uspallata, we can discover the Villavicencio Natural Reservoir, which was inaugurated in 2001. This organic reserve spreads more than seventy thousand hectares, all of them cautiously protected due to their biological diversity and their historical, cultural and archaeological value. The autochthonous flora involves the sweet carob, the myrtle, the broom, the marancel, the sarsaparilla and the chanar. The fauna can be identified in accordance to two different geographical zones: Andean and Central. Between the mammals we can locate guanacos, chinchillas, bobcats, grey and red foxes, and cougars. The most standard birds are the condor, the rhea and the eagle.